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Observations on the biology of a rare British marine amphipod: Monoculodes gibbosus (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Oedicerotidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

D. J. Beare  and
P. G. Moore
D. J. Beare
Affiliation:
University Marine Biological Station, Millport, Isle of Cumbrae, KA28 OEG
P. G. Moore
Affiliation:
University Marine Biological Station, Millport, Isle of Cumbrae, KA28 OEG
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To date, the oedicerotid amphipod Monoculodes gibbosus Chevreux, 1888 is known in British seas from only two individuals collected from Loch Fyne and lodged in the Robertson Collection at Millport (Moore, 1984). Recent intensive research on other species in this family in the Clyde Sea area by one of us (D.J.B.) has resulted in the sporadic capture of further individuals of M. gibbosus (128 individuals in total) from Inchmarnock Water, southern Loch Fyne. This material allows us to expand our knowledge of the species' morphology, live colour, population structure, fecundity, egg size, breeding season, diet and behaviour. Notes on these topics are presented below.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 74 , Issue 1 , February 1994 , pp. 193 - 201
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1994

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